MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
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MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum

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Time Out says

You can't mention art in Chiang Mai without talking about MAIIAM. The city's most prominent contemporary art museum – founded by Jean Michel Beurdeley alongside his son and late wife – the building proudly houses the family's private collection built over more than 30 years. In addition, bold, colourful installations and works come and go as fluidly as the rain, with local and international artists all exhibiting (often together), exploring all kinds of topics, themes and ideas. These rotating exhibitions mean there's always a new reason to go back – and a good chance you'll notice something different every time you do. A rainy afternoon here goes faster than expected, good for when the rain stops any chance of driving home.

122, Moo 7 Tonpao San Kamphaeng. Open 10am-6pm, closed Tuesdays

Details

Address
122, Moo 7 Tonpao San Kamphaeng District
Chiang Mai
50130
Opening hours:
Open Mon 10am-6pm, Wed-Sun 10am-6pm, Closed Tue

What’s on

A collection-deep survey at MAIIAM with BLACK: Vibrant Multiple Light

A new exhibition at MAIIAM draws entirely from the museum's own collection, bringing together more than 39 Thai and international artists across painting, sculpture, photography, moving image and installation. Some works are over fifty years old, others not shown publicly in decades, all reflecting co-founder Jean-Michel Beurdeley's personal collecting eye and the philosophy that shaped MAIIAM's permanent holdings. Black runs through the show not as a single fixed thing but as a shifting state: sometimes a fragment of an image, sometimes swallowing the whole frame, moving between density and weightlessness, structure and atmosphere. The curation leans on that instability, letting black carry belief, fear, desire or memory depending on the work and the viewer standing in front of it. Rather than building toward a singular reading, the exhibition holds multiple interpretations. Until July 21, 2027. MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum. Ton Pao, San Kamphaeng. Wed-Mon 10am-6pm
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